Home Office Site

I loved working at home. Really I did. I home-schooled, had kids interrupting my phone calls and didn’t care, had everything in one place…..if I needed to stop what I was doing, I stopped.

I realize that must sound chaotic to most of you, but it is exactly what I loved about working at home. I am sort of a schizoid type and distraction ready. Thrive on distraction was my motto at the time.

So why do I write about “home office site” stuff when I don’t work at home any longer? Well…..I sort of still do. Just that I feel like I am always working no matter where I go. And I’m not saying that in a negative way. My view is that our life’s work is our lives, and I try to make the most of it where ever I am. I would not be able to be sane in my outside paid job, otherwise. I once told the woman who hired me that I would be dedicated to the position as long as I could blend my “outside” life with it and it with my outside life. And I do.

I manage two kitchens, have two office locations, supervise a staff fluctuating between 12 and fifteen people at two locations, manage several contracts, manage more than one type of business, manage a family ……(my youngest started high school this week – sigh – the other three are in the beyond of college land), I’m on the steering committee of two separate organizations, I’m politically active and sing with the Raging Grannies, I try to keep up with the remains of my “working at home days” business of managing several websites, write for three blogs…..and it isn’t as much as it sounds simply because I meditate every morning, practice Reiki, and stick to the plan of blending it as one whole instead of all the separations implicated by the many uses of commas in this big long run on sentence I have just written. Take out the commas and it is still one who sentence. If I didn’t see it all as some whole shape that fit together I would not be able to pull it off, or be happy with the fact that this journey is what I enjoy and what I love waking up to.

Anyhow, I carry my home office site with me wherever I go. My car resembles my frizzy hair in style. I have at least three carry-all bags. One of them is I swear an old diaper bag from the Goodwill store. Nice weird tan/peach shade, well padded and compartmentalized. Perfect for my laptop. The other’s are soft $10 satchels from Staples. And I carry my office online at my server space. More on that later.

$10 buck satchel from Staples

Right now I’m at one of my EcoCenter Office Space that the Center for Sustainable Living allows for me to use in exchange for Food Works supplementing some catering needs. I’m here because my fourteen year old daughter needs to be fourteen and hang out downtown with friends and recuperate from the first week of high school. Blending. That is what I do. Working at home because home is where my heart and mind are. Wherever that may be.

Peace be with you.

donna